Note 1337 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
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MS.:
Who, foe to nature, other kinds o'erthrown Restless he seeks dominion o'er his own.
Or,
Who deaf to nature's universal groan, Murders all other kinds, betrays his own.
This is the same amiable being who is celebrated, ver. 51, for "helping the wants and woes of other creatures," and sparing singing-birds and gilded insects out of pure compassion.